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Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Car accident
Moderate: Body horror, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Murder
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Terminal illness, Car accident, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement
Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
The last 10% was the only slightly scary part and even that wasn’t that terrifying compared to some of the other books he’s written. The rest was interesting fiction but not what I was totally hoping for from this.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Medical content, Car accident, Gaslighting
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical trauma, Car accident
Graphic: Addiction, Suicide
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Car accident
Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs
Graphic: Child death, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence
Minor: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse
Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail
That all being said, the usual King caveats still apply here. He’s Weird about race, cannot resist fatphobia, and… struggles with realistically depicting women as fully dimensional human beings, although with the first person narration (a relatively rare choice for him), some of this could charitably be attributed as characterization of Jamie.
Again, the real strength of this book is as a cosmic horror story that actually feels grounded in material reality. I’ve always struggled with finding the “horror” in Lovecraft’s work (other than the horrifying racism), where the bloodless narrators and their “you just had to be there, trust me it was sososo much scarier than anything you could imagine” narration leaves me at an alienated remove. King might occasionally *over-elaborate* his horror elements to the point of silliness, but it just works for me when it’s grounded in world that feels painfully real. The ending is one of the bleakest King’s ever written, and it provides a kind of existential horror that’s stuck with me.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Car accident, Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Fatphobia, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship
Minor: Alcoholism, Racial slurs